Making and defending intimate spaces : white waitresses policed in Vancouver's Chinatown cafes

In mid-1930s Vancouver, city authorities launched a campaign to ban white waitresses from Chinatown cafes. Canadian historians have overlooked this campaign because of the tendency to treat the Chinese in Canada as a separate history from working women and to focus on discourse analysis rather than...

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Main Author: Sia, Rosanne Amosovs
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27781

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